George Santos’ Harbor City Sales Pitch Revealed by Clients
In 1903, a ship full of dreamers docked in Boston. Among their number was a refugee from Lugo in northern Italy. He was cleaned out by cards sharp during the voyage, so he got here with $2.50 in his pocket. Much later, he told a newspaper, “I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.” That man’s name was Charles Ponzi.
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The ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ swindle that now bears his name is one of the first lessons in the syllabus for Grifter 101. And…
Scientists Pitch Medical Innovations at 2023 Biomedical Business Plan Challenge | Newsrooms
Standing on the stage at Uris Auditorium on June 1, Dr. Joe Zhou, an associate professor in regenerative medicine in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, made the case for the necessity of developing new approaches to treating diabetes, a disease he called “a true epidemic of the modern world.”
More than 400 million people globally live with diabetes. It leads to roughly 4 million deaths annually due to complications and racks up nearly a trillion in health care spending. Millions of diabetic patients rely on daily finger pricks to monitor blood glucose and insulin injections to control hyperglycemia. These are…
Council adopts strategic plan for Cranbrook
Members of City of Cranbrook council adopted the draft 2024 – 2027 Strategic Plan Monday night (May 15) – a document that will guide the higher-level objectives of the City of Cranbrook as a corporation over the next four years.
This new strategic plan was developed over the first three months of 2023 following the fall election of Mayor and council. The new strategic plan will guide the coming three years of this council and the first year of the next council’s term, 2024-2027.
The reason is that the budget takes months to create, based on projects and a business…
FCA Business Plan focus: reducing harm from firm failure
The FCA’s Business Plan for 2023/24, covered in overview in our earlier post, reiterates the FCA’s focus on reducing misconduct that can cause serious harm, and includes six commitments and related actions the FCA plans to take over the coming year.
One important area relevant for all firms is financial resilience. The FCA wants firms to meet their financial resource requirements so that they can conduct business, wind down and, where applicable, fail without causing significant harm to consumers and market participants.
The Business Plan confirms the FCA’s plans to introduce a new regulatory return requiring 20,000 solo regulated financial…
Teck Resources doubles down on plan to split company after Glencore offer – Business News
Teck doubles down on split
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Teck Resources Ltd. is doubling down on its plan to split the company, a week after Swiss mining giant Glencore made an unsolicited bid for the Vancouver miner.
In an investor presentation issued today, Teck says its separation will give shareholders more choices and ways to maximize value because they will hold shares in both Teck Metals and Elk Valley Resources.
The company says its plan provides a responsible exit from steelmaking coal at fair value.
It adds that Teck’s…
TX Rep Roger Williams wrong: Constitution not business plan
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The government is not a business
[–In his support of Donald Trump in Waco last month, Rep. Roger Williams said, “We need a businessperson to run the business of America.” (April 2, 1C, “Texas Republicans’ continued support for Trump is ‘no-brainer.”) Whenever I hear we need a businessperson in charge of government,…
